I have invested last two years into android app development and now all that hardwork is gone for nothing in the blink of eye just because a fucking bot figured out that there is some crazy violation that I have never committed.
Currently I am dejected don't know what to do and I don't want other developers to get affected in the same manner.
So the question why can't we have a community playstore, appstore similar to package managers eg :- npm.
Please somebody build such store and we all should force google so that It wont show a warning when we try to install apps from that store.Unfortunately most consumers seem to prefer convenience over ethics, so I'm not sure the situation will be fixed any time soon :(
I was actually thinking something similar to your suggestion the other day for an entirely different reason. Specifically, trust based integrations to SCM so that users could be more certain their devices were running the same code published as open source (it stemmed from a discussion on HN where some folks mentioned that the only real way to know what's running on your device is to rev. engineer it / decompile it). It would be great if we could have more confidence that an open source app is indeed running the code published to it's production branch.